Spooler for pile-fabric looms.



RA. WHITMORE. SPOOLER FOR PILE FABRIC LOOMS.

APPLIOA'IION FILED JAN. 2, 1908.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

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F. A. WHITMORE. SPOOLER FOR PILB FABRIC LOOMS.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 2, 1908.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

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SPOOLER FOR PILE FABRIC LOOMS. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2, 1908.

Patented Sept. 7.1909.

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UNITED srArEs" PATENT OFFIC.

FRED A. WHITMORE, OF PHILADELIHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TQ CROMPTON &

SPOOLER non PILE-FABRIC LOOMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. '7, 1909.

Application filed January 2, 1908. Serial No. 408,875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, FRED A. VVHITMORE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Phili object of my inventionis to improve upon,

the construction of a spooler of the class referred to, as ordinarilymade, and more particularly to provide improved mechanism for drawingout the Wire from the spool, after the spool is wound.

In my improvements, I provide a chain or flexible band, having connectedtherewith a device for pulling out the wire from the spool, whichchainhas a movement always.

in the same direction, without regard to the rotary direction of thedriving shaft, and I also provide mechanism to automatically stop thedrawing out movement, when the wire is separated from the spool.

My invention consists in certain novel features of construction of myimprovements as will be hereinafter fully described.

I have only shown in the drawings a sufficient portion of a spooler ofthe class referred to, with my improvements combined therewith,sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to understand theconstruction and operation thereof.

Referring to the drawings :Figure l is a front view of a portion of aspooler embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 shows a part of the mechanismshown at the left in Fig. 1, detached, and in an opposite position. Fig.3 shows, on an enlarged scale, the mechanism shown at the left in Fig.1, detached, looking in the direction of arrow a, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is asection, on line 4:, 4, Fig. 3, looking in the direction of arrow 5,same figure. Fig. 5 is a section, on line 5, 5-, Fig. 3, looking in thedirection of arrow (2. 'Fig. 6 is aplan view of the parts shown at theupper portion in Fig. 3, detached, looking in the direction of arrow 0,same figure. Fig. 7 shows, on a larger scale, the clutch and drivingmechanism detached, looking in the direction of arrow (Z, Fig. 4; theparts at the left are shown in section, and, Fig. 8

.is shown in Figs. 7, and 3.

is a section, on line 8, 8, Fig. 7, looking in the direction of arrow 6,same figure.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 are the side or end frames of a spoolerof the class referred to; 2 and 3 are the upper and lower transversegirths, respectively, secured to the end frames 1.

4 is the driving shaft mounted in suitable bearings 4 on the end frame.

- 5 is a portion of a wooden spool, and 6 is the pile yarn woundthereon.

7 is a wire which extends into a longitudinal groove in the spool 5 tohold the ends of the yarn, in winding the same on the spool. The wire 7extends out beyond the head 5 of the spool, and has its end made hooked,or provided with a projection 7 thereon.

All of the above parts may be of the usual and well known constructionin spoolers of the class referred to.

I will now describe my im 'irovements, which above stated, relateparticularly to the mechanism for drawing out the wire 7 from the spool,after the spool is wound.

On the driving shaft 4 is loosely mounted a sleeve 8, which is preventedfrom having a longitudinal movement on said shaft 1, in this instance bya bearing 4 at one end, and a collar 4 at the other end, see Fig. 7. Onone end of the sleeve 8 is secured, in this instance by dowel pins 9,see Fig. 8, a disk 10, and on the other end is secured by dowel pins,not shown, a disk 11. The disk 10 has in this instance a V shape toothportion 10, see Fig. 5, on the hub thereof, adapted to be engaged by asimilar tooth portion on a collar-12, which is splined on the shaft 4,in this instance by a key 13, see Fig. 7, to cause-the disk 10, and alsothe sleeve 8, to rotate with the shaft 4.

The sleeve 8 has loosely mounted thereon two bevel pinions 1.4, and 15,both of which mesh with the bevel gear 16. Either one of the bevelpinions 11 and 15 may be secured to the sleeve 8, through the disks 10or 11, to cause the rotation of said pinion with said sleeve. The bevelpinions 14- and 15 have enlarged hubs 141, and 15, adapted to bearagainst the disks 10, and 11, respectively, see Fig. 7, and to extendover the hub portions of said disks, only one of which, 10",

The hub portion 10 is shaped in transverse section as shown in Fig. 8with cam-shaped, or curved exterior surfaces, to receive between saidsurfaces, and the inner surface of the enlarged hub 14, the rolls 17, inthis instance four in number, see Fig. 8.

The clutch mechanism formed by the disk 10, and the expanded hub 14,shown at the left in Fig. 7 should be revolved in the direction of arrow7", Fig. 8, and the rolls 17 act to lock the enlarged portion 14 of thebevel pinion 14 to the disk 10, to cause the rotation of said pinion 14,loose. on the sleeveS, and therotation of the bevel gear 16 in thedirection of the arrow g, Fig. 7. When the shaft 4 revolves in theopposite direction, the hub of the disk 10 rotates loosely within theenlarged hub portion 14 of the pinion 14, in the direction of arrow f,Fig. 8, leaving the pinion 14 loose on the sleeve 8, and the other disk11 locks the bevel pinion 15 on the sleeve 8, and causes the rotation ofthe bevel gear 16 in the same direction as before, and in the samemanner as above described in connection with the disk 10 and pinion 14,so that the rotation of the driving shaft 4 in either direction, willcause the rotation of the bevel gear 16 in the same direction.

The bevel gear 16 is fast on a shaft 18, mounted in bearings 19 on astand 19, attached to the transverse girth 2, see Fig. 5. Also mountedon said shaft 18 is a sprocket wheel 20, and a ratchet 21. A secondsprocket wheel 22 has a hub loosely mounted on a stud 23, at the upperend of the frame 1. An endless chain 24 connects the sprocket wheels 20and 22. A second sprocket wheel 25, on the hub 22 of the sprocket wheel22, receives an endless chain 26, which also passes around a sprocketwheel 27, mounted on a stud 28 at the opposite end of the spooler, seeFig. 1. On the endless chain 26 is in this instance secured a device 29,which has a slotted end to receive the wire 7 and engage the hooked end7 thereon, to draw said wire 7 out of the spool 5, when the end 5 on thespool 5 engages the stationary stand 30 on the spooler. The movement ofthe chain 26, in the direction of arrow h, Fig. 1, moves the device 29thereon, and with it the wire 7 until the device 29 reaches the oppositeend of the spooler; the operating mechanism then stops, and the operatorremoves the wire 7 from the chain, and starts the mechanism again, andthe movement of the chain 26 continues, until the device 29 is broughtto its normal position, shown in Fig. 1, ready for the next spool. Thisoperation is going on while another spool is filling on the machine, sothat no time is lost.

The mechanism automatically stops itself, but it is necessary for theoperator to start the drawing out motion of the wire 7, and in thisinstance it is done by means of a foot treadle, and mechanism connectedtherewith. The foot treadle 31 is in this instance pivotally mounted ona stud 32 on the transverse girth 3, and has its upwardly extending end31 connected by a rod or connector 33, with one arm of an angle lever34, which is pivotally mounted on a stud 35 on the transverse girth 3.The other arm of the angle lever 34 is connected by a rod or connector36 with a pin 37 on a pawl 38, which is pivotally mounted on an arm 39,the hub 39 of which is loosely mounted 011 the shaft 18. The downwardmovement of the treadle 31, through intermediate connections to the pawl38, causes the pawl to be raised and engage the ratchet 21, as shown inFig. 2, to rotate said ratchet and with it the sprocket wheel 20, andthrough the chain 24, the sprocket wheel 22 on the shaft 23, to move thechain 26, and cause a device 40, on or connected with said chain, toengage an arm or lever 41, see Fig. 6, fast on the upper end of avertically extending rock shaft 42, mounted in suitable bearings andmove said lever 41 to the left in Fig. 6, and communicate a partialrotation to the vertically extending shaft 42. On the lower end of theshaft 42 is fastan arm 43, which is connected by a rod or connector 44with a lever 45, which is pivoted on a stud 46 on a stand 47 attached tothe transverse girth 2, see Fig. 4. The lever 45 has a yoke shaped end45, which is adapted to extend into an annular groove 12 in the hub ofthe member 12 of the tooth clutch mechanism, see Fig. 5, splined on thedriving shaft 4. The movement of the lever 41, by the engagement of thedevice 40 therewith, through intermediate connections, acts to move theclutch member 12 away from the disk 10, as shown in Fig. \Vhen thedevice 40 passes by the. lever 41, a helically coiled contraction spring48, attached at one end to the lever 45, and at its other end in thisinstance to the bearing 1t) of the shaft 18, acts to move said lever 45and the clutch member 12 in an opposite direction, to cause the same toengage with the tooth portion 10 on the disk 10, and cause therevolution of the disk 10, in the operation of the mechanism, and thestarting of the drawing out mechanism, as above described. On the upperend of the spooler frame is in this instance secured a bar or plate 50of angle iron shape in cross section, shown in Fig. 4, and having alongitudinal slot 50 therein, which forms a track or way for the drawingout device 29 and the device 40 to travel in. From the above descriptionin connection with the drawings the operation of my improvements will bereadily understood by those skilled inthe art, and briefly is as follows:-During the operation of winding the warp ends 6 on the spool. 5, whichis accomplished by the spooler machine, not shown, of any usualconstruction and operation, the drawing out mechanism embodying myimprovements is not operated, vbut when the spool 5 has the warp ends 6wound thereon, the attendant operates the treadle 81, in this instancepresses down said treadle, and causes, through intermediate connections,the rotation of the ratchet 21 by the engagement of the pawl 38therewith, in the direction of arrow 2', Fig. 2. The rotation of saidratchet 21 causes the rotation of the sprocket wheel 20, and through theendless chain 24, the rotation of the sprocket wheel 22 loose on thestud 23, and the rotation of the sprocket wheel 25 attached to thesprocket wheel 22, the starting of the endless chain 26, which passesaround the sprocket wheel 25 and also the sprocket wheel 27. Themovement of the chain 26, in the direction of arrow 72., Fig. 1, causesthe device 40, fast on said chain 26 and in engagement with the lever41, see Fig. 6, to move said lever to the left, and pass by said lever,to release said lever and allow the spring 48 to act, see Fig. 5, tomove the lever 45 to the left, Fig. 5, and the clutch member 12 intoengagement with the clutch member 10 on the disk 10, and be held inengagement therewith by said spring 48, to cause said disk 10 to berevolved with the driving shaft 4, and through the revolution of saiddisk to cause the revolution of the enlarged hub 14 on the bevel pinion14, through the rolls 17, see Fig. 8, in the direction of arrow 7. Therevolution of the bevel pinion 14 revolves the gear 16 fast on the shaft18, and causes the revolution of the sprocket wheel 20 fast on saidshaft, and through the endless chain 24, the revolution of the sprocketwheel 22 fast on the shaft 28, and through the revolution of said shaft23, the revolutionof the second sprocket wheel 25, and the continuedmovement of the endless chain 26. The movement of the chain 26, in thedirection of arrow h, Fig. 1, causes the movement of the drawing outdevice 29 fast on said chain, to draw the spool 5 toward the left, Fig.1, until the head 5 thereon, engages the stationary stop 30 on the frameof the machine. The engagement of the head 5 of the spool 5 with thestationary stand 30 stops any further movement of the spool 5, but thecontinued movement of the chain 26 and the drawing out device 29thereon, which engages the hook end 7 on the wire 7, draws out the wire7 from the spool 5. \Vhen the drawing out device 29, after having drawnout the wire 7, reaches the left hand end of the frame shown in Fig. 7,the operator disconnects the wire from said drawing out device 29, andthe continued movement of the chain 26 in the same direction, returnsthe device 29 to its normal position at the right of the machine, asshown ll'l F 1, and also returns the device 40 to its normal position atthe left of the machine, as shown in Fig. 1, and in engagement with thelever 41, to move, through intermediate connections, the clutch member12 out of engagement with the clutch member 10 of the disk 10, againstthe action of the spring 48, to automatically stop the operatingmechanism for automatically moving the chain 26.

In case the driving shaft 4 is rotated in an opposite direction fromthat above described, then the rotation of the disk 10, by theengagement of the clutch member 12 therewith, will be in the oppositedirection, or in thedirection of arrow f, Fig. 8. The rotation of thedisk 10 in this direction, will cause the sleeve 8 to rotate in the samedirection, and leave the bevel pinion 14 loose on the sleeve 8, and willcause the locking of the hub of the disk 11 to the enlarged hub 15 ofthe bevel pinion 15, and cause the revolution of the bevel pinion 15,and the revolution of the bevel gear 16 in the direction of arrow 9,Fig. 7, and through intermediate connections above described, themovement of the chain 26 in the direction of arrow h, Fig. 1, and theoperation of the wire drawing out mechanism, as above described.

It will be understood that the details of construction of myimprovements may be varied if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent is 1. In a machine of the class described, thecombination with a chain or flexible band,

and a wire drawing out device connected with said chain or band, ofnon-automatic means for starting the movement of said chain, andautomatic means for continuing the movement of said chain, and forautomatically stopping the movement thereof.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a chain orflexible band having a wire drawing out device connected therewith, andalso a device for automatically putting into operation the means formoving said chain, of non-automatic means for starting the movement ofsaid chain, and automatic means for stopping the movement thereof.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a chain orflexible band, a device connected therewith for engaging and drawing outthe wire from a spool, a second device connected therewith for puttinginto operation mechanism for automatically moving said chain, of saidmechanism, comprising a driven shaft, a sleeve loose on said shaft, twodisks attached to said sleeve, two bevel pinions, one of which isadapted to be locked to said sleeve at a time, a bevel gear operated byone of said pinions, intermediate connections from said bevel gear tosaid chain or flexible band, to move the same in with for engaging anddrawing out a Wire from a spool, said means combined With a drivingshaft, and adapted to move said chain in the same direction Withoutregard to the direction of movement of said drivin'g shaft, and saidmeans comprising a sleeve loose on said driving shaft, two disksattached to said sleeve, connections intermediate said disks and thehubs of tWo bevel pinions, a

bevel gear in mesh with both of said pinions, 1

FRED A. WHITMORE.

Vitnesses WILLIAM B. PHELrs, VVM. E. MoCLnARY.

